{"id":4109,"date":"2012-01-31T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2012-01-31T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T20:39:54","slug":"california-zoo-events-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-zoo-events-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"California Zoo Events in 2012, Support Your Local Zoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/livzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Living Desert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/zoos\/palm-desert-living-desert-giraffes.html\">cute baby giraffes<\/a>, and rare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/2-rare-slender-horned-gazelles-born-at-the-living-desert-in-palm-desert-ca\/\">slender-horned gazelles<\/a>, may stay home during the Wine &amp; Music Festival on February 4, 2012, but you can visit with a variety of Living Desert animals at The Gardens on El Paseo Gardens&#8217; center fountain off El Paseo (in between Tiffany &amp; Co. and Louis Vuitton) during the event. Look for the Wildlife on Wheels van for a close encounter of the animal kind! The Gardens on El Paseo has chosen The Living Desert as recipient of the proceeds of the Wine and Music Festival on February 4th.<\/p>\n<p>The 14th Annual Wine &amp; Music Series at The Gardens on El Paseo will kicked off its 12-week season on Saturday, January 28 (running through April 14). Each Saturday from 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. the public is invited to enjoy light refreshments sponsored by Pacifica Seafood Restaurant and Sullivan&#8217;s Steakhouse and two glasses of wine are also provided compliments of Monte De Oro Winery &amp; Vineyards, Temecula. Ticket sales will begin at 4:15 p.m. near the front entrance of Saks. Location: 73-545 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA. thegardensonelpaseo.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming 2012 events at California zoos\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/zoos\/zoo-events.html\">get full details<\/a>):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atascadero &#8211; Charles Paddock Zoo Cookie Adventure May 13, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Big Bear Lake &#8211; Moonridge Zoo Blues for the Zoo Concert August 4, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Eureka &#8211; Sequoia Park Zoo Brew at the Zoo May 19, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Fresno &#8211; Fresno Chaffee Zoo events TBA<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach &#8211; Aquarium of the Pacific\u00a0 Sea Fare\u00a0 October 13, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles &#8211; LA Zoo Sex in the City Zoo III\u00a0 February 12, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Monterey &#8211; Monterey Bay Aquarium Cooking for Solutions\u00a0 May 18 &#8211; 20, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento &#8211; Sacramento Zoo King of Feasts Food &amp; Wine Luau June 23, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Santa Ana Zoo &#8211; Zoofaria in August 2012 Date TBD<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara Zoo &#8211; \u00a0 Zoo Brew\u00a0 June 2, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Living Desert&#8217;s cute baby giraffes, and rare slender-horned gazelles, may stay home during the Wine &amp; Music Festival on February 4, 2012, but you can visit with a variety of Living Desert animals at The Gardens on El Paseo Gardens&#8217; center fountain off El Paseo (in between Tiffany &amp; Co. and Louis Vuitton) during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}